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Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,051. [1] Its county seat is Clay. [2] The county was founded in 1858 and named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. [3]
Clay is centrally located within Clay County at (38.462855, -81.080024), [13] along the Elk River [14] and West Virginia Route 16 at an elevation of 708 feet (216 m). [6] West Virginia Route 4 overlaps with Route 16 in the north of Clay. There is not much bottom land in Clay, as the river cuts a deep gorge through the city, limiting growth.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
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Clay Junction (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 38°28′29″N 81°4′39″W / 38.47472°N 81.07750°W / 38.47472; -81
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